A picture, it is said, is worth a thousand words, but cannot a few well-spoken words convey as many pictures? – Author Unknown

Then your words of abuse today may turn into a universally valid principle of denigration, for words are magical formulae. They leave fingermarks behind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye becomes the footprints of history. One ought to watch one’s every word. – Franz Kafka, quoted by Gustav Janouch, Conversations with Kafka

The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries. – Voltaire

Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late. – James Alexander Thom